Judderman: The Eden Book Society

D. A. Northwood

Sept 2020 · Eden Book Society Book 2 · QUEST from W. F. Howes Limited · Narrated by D. A. Northwood, Charlie Higson, Gary Budden and Walter Chidlow

About this audiobook

AN EDEN BOOK SOCIETY EDITION
The Forgotten recordings, featuring bonus material including a new foreword by Charlie Higson.
Your brother's with the Judder.
London, early-1970s. In a city plagued by football violence, Republican bombings, blackouts and virulent racism, a new urban myth is taking hold. Among the broken down estates, crumbling squats and failed projects of a dying metropolis, whispered sightings of a malevolent figure nicknamed the Judderman are spreading. A manifestation of the sick psyche of a city, or something else?
Published by The Eden Book Society in 1972, cult author D.A. Northwood's Judderman is an uncompromising snapshot of a city in metamorphosis. Saturated with a nihilistic sense of doom it is a bleak but compelling vision of urban living.

Ratings and reviews

I confess to mixed feelings about Judderman, having thoroughly enjoyed Holt House from the same series of retro recordings, I was hoping for something similar. The story started well with Gary's elder brother, Danny going missing. Both brothers are fascinated by the urban mythology that abounds around London. Gary's friends and family all take Danny's disappearance in their stride, his mum still cooks dinner for Danny 'in case', his dad stops mentioning him, Gary's girlfriend insists he's losing the plot. Gary keeps hearing about the Judderman, a dark figure who lurks on the edge of reality. As I said, it all started very promisingly, but sadly I felt the author lost his way somewhere and there was a complete lack of shivers for me. I was listening to the audiobook and found I had to keep repeating parts of the book as I had lost concentration. Overall this was a bit of a disappointment for me.